A post shared by Alireza Vafa (@ali.reza.vafa) Con Kolivas, an engineer and amateur astronomer from Australia, took this photo on Sunday. Gary Hershorn, a photographer based in New York City, encountered cloudy conditions on Monday. But he captured a shot of the two planets approaching one another the week before, above the Statue of Liberty. An image of Saturn (above) and Jupiter (below) in the sky above the Statue of Liberty in New York City, December 2020. Gary Hershorn "As a photographer, I have been looking forward to seeing the 'Christmas Star,'" he told Business Insider. "The two planets have been setting next to the Statue of Liberty for the past week getting a bit closer together each day. It was a beautiful sight to see last week as they came down behind the statue."